The revelation has sparked fresh fears that ceilings at affected hospitals could suddenly collapse, injuring staff and patients, and calls for urgent action to tackle the problem. Maria Caulfield, the health secretary, made the revelation in a written response to a parliamentary question posed by Lib Dem health spokeswoman Daisy Cooper. Caulfield said investigations carried out by the NHS found that 34 buildings in 16 different health centers contained reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RACC), which one hospital chief has likened to an “Aero chocolate bar”....

UK drug regulators have become the first in the world to authorize an updated version of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine that aims to protect against the original virus and the Omicron variant. In a statement on Monday, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said it had given the green light to Moderna’s combination “bivalent” vaccine, which will be used as a booster shot for adults. Each dose of the booster will target both the original COVID-19 virus first identified in 2020 and the omicron BA....

Vitali Klitschko zu BILD: „Wir haben gemeinsam die Scheidung eingereicht, weil wir seit Jahren getrennt leben und das jetzt offiziell machen wollen. Wir haben ein sehr gutes Verhältnis und respektieren einander, leben aber schon lange getrennt in verschiedenen Städten.” Bei einer Show lernte das ukrainische Ex-Model den Boxer und heutigen Bürgermeister von Kiew kennen und heiratete ihn 1996. Das Paar hat drei gemeinsame Kinder, Yegor, Elizabeth und Maxim. Neben ihrem großen karitativen und sozialen Engagement ist die Tochter zweier Musiker eine leidenschaftliche Sängerin....

In a letter to parents this week, founder Tim Jones said the decision was made “with a heavy heart” and all deposits would be refunded in full. The K-8 school in Rockwood Park had between 50 and 70 students. The school was founded in 2012 and featured traditional subjects such as math, literacy, science, social studies, art and music in a predominantly outdoor environment. The name, Tír na nÓg, refers to a mystical land in Gaelic mythology....

O’Grady, 67, had hosted the Sunday afternoon program for nearly 14 years before a schedule change meant he shared the hosting role with comic Rob Beckett, swapping every 13 weeks. In a social media message posted before the show, he said his departure was due to the new arrangement. “The reason I’m leaving, because everyone asked me that, is because I wasn’t really happy with the 13 weeks after, the 13 weeks off,” he said in an Instagram post on Sunday....

Highway 417 has been closed between Metcalfe and Carling/Kirkwood avenues since Thursday night while crews replaced the aging Booth Street Bridge. The closure forced thousands of vehicles off the freeway onto city streets, causing traffic delays on Carling Avenue, Catherine Street and other streets through Centretown, Little Italy and Westboro. At 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, construction crews were working to rehabilitate the freeway over the newly installed Booth Street Bridge in preparation for Monday’s reopening....

Une équipe québécoise a mis au point un procédé d’impression de mélanine purifiée à partir d’encre de seiche. Il vient de publier un article dans la revue scientifique américaine “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” (PNAS). L’utilisation de matériaux d’origine biologique — issus du vivant — dans le monde de l’électronique permet d’envisager une fin de vie différente pour ces objets. Ils pourraient alors emprunter le chemin du compost....

“He killed two children, aged 8 and 11, using a hunting rifle, and injured their mother, who later succumbed to her injuries in a medical facility,” Brđanin said. “He then went out into the street and used the same rifle to shoot other residents of that settlement.” A witness told RTCG that the assailant “shot indiscriminately at people as he passed by on the street.” Authorities say they have identified the shooter — said to be a 34-year-old man — and that his rampage ended when he was shot by a civilian....

The Secretary of State for Wales is now backing Liz Truss, having previously backed Rishi Sunak. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Sir Robert says the change of heart “wasn’t easy to do”. She points to her policies on the economy and reforming the Human Rights Act as why she has fallen behind the foreign secretary. Liz Truss slams civil service ‘anti-Semitism’ claim – policy updates The change of heart comes as Mrs Truss remains the frontrunner to become the next Prime Minister....

“It’s time for student borrowers to stop shouldering the burden of ITT’s years of lies and false promises,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement Tuesday. “The evidence shows that for years, ITT leaders deliberately misled students about the quality of their programs in order to take advantage of federal student loan programs, without considering the hardships this would cause,” he added. Who is eligible for student debt relief?...

Britain’s Met Office said this July was England’s driest since 1935 with average rainfall at 23.1 millimeters (0.9 inches), just 35 percent of the month’s average. Some parts of the country experienced the driest July ever. The River Thames stretches 215 miles (356 km) across southern England, from Gloucestershire in the west through the heart of London, before entering the sea at Essex in the east. The natural spring that feeds the river, known as the spring, dries up most summers....

Canadian department store Zellers is hoping to make a comeback next year, a decade after the discount chain closed most of its locations. Hudson’s Bay Co. said Zellers will debut a new e-commerce site and expand its footprint to select Hudson’s Bay department stores across the country in early 2023. The company said the relaunched Zellers will offer “a digital-first shopping journey that taps into brand nostalgia.” Zellers’ return comes as rising inflation is driving consumers to discount retailers in search of lower prices and stiff competition from existing stores such as Walmart, Dollarama and Giant Tiger....

“Justice! Justice! We are tired of ignorance,” shouted the woman outside the Ministry of Education. “Bread, work and freedom.” Many of the approximately 40 women appeared provocatively without veils and some did not wear burqas. The protest didn’t last long. The Taliban immediately dispersed the women by firing their weapons into the air. The militants beat those who fled to nearby shops with their rifles. Since taking power on August 15, 2021, the militants have moved to drastically curtail women’s rights in the country....

Judging by comments made when she was chief secretary to the Treasury, the prime ministerial front-runner believes the UK’s economic problems are due to a work culture quite different from that in communist China. Trasos is right in one respect. The UK lags behind many other western countries in the productivity table. Across the G7 group of major industrial nations, the average worker produces 13% more per hour than the average British worker, and the gap is widening....

Former President Donald Trump over the weekend asked for documents obtained by the FBI to be returned to him — via a post on Truth Social, instead of his lawyers. The former president made the request on Sunday. It seemed worded as if Trump expected it to have legal standing. “Oh great!” Trump wrote. “It was just learned that the FBI, in its now famous Mar-a-Lago raid, took boxes of privileged ‘attorney-client’ material and also ‘executive’ privileged material, which they knowingly should not have taken....

The last two shootings took place about four hours apart on Sunday. The first, reported around 4:30 p.m., happened in the 9200 block of Rainier Avenue South, near Safeway. A male victim was shot in the arm with non-life-threatening injuries, said Detective Valerie Carson, a Seattle police spokeswoman. No further information about the shooting was immediately available. The second was reported shortly after 8 p.m. Sunday near Hamilton Viewpoint Park in West Seattle....

Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register The U.S. government spared seven western states from mandatory Colorado River cuts for now, but warned Tuesday that drastic conservation is needed to protect the shrinking reservoirs from overuse and severe drought exacerbated by climate change. The US Recovery Bureau in June had given states 60 days, until mid-August, to negotiate their own reductions or face mandatory cuts imposed by the federal government....

Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès aurait-il été aperçu ce week-end à Cannes ? La question survient alors que deux jeunes hommes ont partagé des images sur TikTok dans le but de prouver que l’homme le plus recherché de France était derrière eux. Il n’a pas fallu longtemps pour que le mât s’enflamme. En effet, sur les photos postées sur la plateforme, on peut voir en arrière-plan fixant fixement le sujet, un homme qui pourrait avoir une certaine ressemblance avec Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès....

15.8.2022 4:52 Uhr Jeder Abschied ist schwer – und möglicherweise noch schwerer, wenn er von widrigen Umständen begleitet wird. Angesichts des Krieges und der inneren Unruhen, die sein Land heimsuchen, zeigt Botschafter Melnyk viel Gefühl für Deutschland, bevor er in die Ukraine zurückkehrt. Der Abschied von Berlin fällt dem ukrainischen Botschafter Andriy Melnyk nach siebeneinhalb Jahren im diplomatischen Dienst in Deutschland nicht leicht. „Ja, dieser Abschied fällt mir und meiner Familie wirklich sehr schwer, weil wir uns in Deutschland sehr wohl gefühlt haben, weil wir dieses Land geliebt haben, aber vor allem, weil wir viele neue Freunde für die Ukraine gewonnen haben“, sagte Melnyk in einem Interview im Redaktionsnetzwerk ....

But lately, a tangled saga of wealth and the free press has become Aspen’s summer obsession. It erupted when a wealthy real estate developer sued the Aspen Times, the city’s oldest newspaper, for defamation last spring, saying the paper defamed him and falsely referred to him as a Russian oligarch in the days after Russia invaded Ukraine. A lawsuit by a powerful out-of-town developer might have been big news for the 140-year-old Aspen Times....